Crit #2

This week we met at LAB and held crit there. Due to the size of and material my work is made in, it was impossible for me to transport them on the rutgers bus without damaging them. However, I brought with me sketches of my project. ( i will scan them in and upload them as soon as my scanner feels like working again... the same goes for images of my work in progress. just waiting on my new memory card to come in. ) Anyways, some new ideas and aspects were discussed and brought to my attention. I brought up the idea of carving into the foam(something i haven't done yet) and the crit group suggested i should carve the foam to make it very then so the light from the light boxes behind it may illuminate the piece further. I, a few days later, tested out carving the foam and found it to be very tedious and time consuming without great end results( besides very tender fingers that were easy to cut). So I have decided not to carve the foam because this is already a very ambitious project and I am concerned about not having enough time to complete every aspect of the piece to a level of satification if I added carving foam to the To-Do List.. The group was very interested in my idea of using light boxes and suggested some artists to look at. I think this will be very helpful to see how others have incorporated light into their works. It was brought to my attention that I need to think about the lighting of the light boxes further. I didn't really think about what kind of lighting I would want in the room that my piece is installed in. Plus I havent really thought about what kind of light would be in the light box. I just thought I would have a soft white glow of light. I never thought about color light or blinking pattern effect or anything of that relevance. Sooooo.... now I have so much more think about and it feels like this project has just become even more ambitious. But I feel that the added qualities that I now have to think about will only develop and push this piece even farther than I ever expected it to go.

Critique #1 spring2010

so my crit basically went like this.....

• more "pop" than elizabeth murray
• gray panels fuctioned as a grid
• panel is compelled to be read as a narrative(gray panels "buildings" succeeded into a void)
• sides of paintings: investigate how the line moves from the piece to foam piece
• Jenna suggested cityscape (organic shapes-> city life)
• Paul suggeasted it referenced a grid
• Joe said the circle is central optical point and seems like a visual vortex. He asked if there could be a balance to it.... something to comtemplate
• Paul wants me to contemplate the lighting source for my pieces. He says the lighting is an important aspect of it. I totally agree.
• the layers of panels come off as interesting and I should investigate the landscape aspect of it when building my piece for thesis.
• group says I should keep focusing on the color theory of my pieces because it seems to be an important aspect.

* I am open to another opinions or suggestions.